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Best Demography journals

140 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Demography. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 35 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Population and Development Review 7.9 99th Q1 SSCI A No
2 Race Ethnicity and Education 7.8 98th Q1 SSCI – No
3 Folia Geographica 7.3 98th Q1 ESCI – Yes
4 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 7.2 97th Q1 SSCI – No
5 Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment 6.8 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
6 European Union Politics 6.4 96th Q1 SSCI – No
7 International Migration Review 6.3 95th Q1 SSCI A No
8 Population Studies 6.3 94th Q1 SSCI A No
9 European Societies 6.2 93rd Q1 SSCI – Yes
10 Developmental Psychology 6.1 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
11 Chinese Sociological Review 5.8 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
12 European Journal of Population 5.6 91st Q1 SSCI B No
13 Demography 5.4 91st Q1 SSCI A No
14 Mobilities 5.3 90th Q1 SSCI – No
15 Journal of Population Economics 5.1 89th Q1 SSCI A* No
16 Health Reports 5 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
17 Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 4.9 88th Q1 SSCI – No
18 Comparative Migration Studies 4.8 87th Q1 SSCI – Yes
19 Population and Environment 4.8 86th Q1 SSCI A No
20 Journal of Migration and Health 4.8 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
21 Population, Space and Place 4.6 85th Q1 SSCI A No
22 Journal of Human Trafficking 4.5 84th Q1 – – No
23 Population Research and Policy Review 4.3 83rd Q1 SSCI A No
24 Studies in Family Planning 4.3 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
25 Journal of International Migration and Integration 4.2 82nd Q1 ESCI C No
26 Journal of Aging and Social Policy 4.2 81st Q1 SSCI – No
27 Whiteness and Education 4.2 81st Q1 – – No
28 International Migration 4.1 80th Q1 SSCI A No
29 Journal of Population Ageing 4.1 79th Q1 ESCI – No
30 Gender, Place and Culture 4 78th Q1 SSCI – No
31 Migration Studies 3.9 78th Q1 SSCI – No
32 Journal on Migration and Human Security 3.9 77th Q1 – – No
33 European Journal of Migration and Law 3.9 76th Q1 SSCI – No
34 Asian Population Studies 3.8 76th Q1 SSCI B No
35 Genus 3.7 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
36 Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 3.6 74th Q2 ESCI C No
37 Comparative Population Studies 3.6 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
38 Demographic Research 3.4 73rd Q2 SSCI A Yes
39 Frontiers in Human Dynamics 3.4 72nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
40 Mathematical Population Studies 3.2 71st Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
41 Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 3.1 71st Q2 – – Yes
42 European Journal of Geography 3 70th Q2 – – Yes
43 Canadian Journal of African Studies 2.7 69th Q2 ESCI – No
44 SA Journal of Human Resource Management 2.7 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
45 Life Course Research and Social Policies 2.6 68th Q2 – – No
46 Journal of Population Research 2.6 67th Q2 ESCI A No
47 Global Studies of Childhood 2.6 66th Q2 ESCI – No
48 Journal of Demographic Economics 2.5 66th Q2 SSCI B No
49 International Journal of Refugee Law 2.4 65th Q2 ESCI – No
50 Journal of Poverty 2.3 64th Q2 ESCI – No
51 Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populacao 2.2 63rd Q2 – – Yes
52 IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2 63rd Q2 – – No
53 Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 2 62nd Q2 SSCI C No
54 Economics and Culture 1.9 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
55 Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1.9 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
56 Central and Eastern European Migration Review 1.9 60th Q2 ESCI – Yes
57 World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 1.9 59th Q2 ESCI – No
58 Biodemography and Social Biology 1.8 58th Q2 SSCI – No
59 Migraciones 1.8 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
60 Journal of Population and Social Studies 1.8 57th Q2 – – No
61 Immigrants and Minorities 1.8 56th Q2 ESCI – No
62 Population and Societies 1.7 56th Q2 – – No
63 World Regional Geography Book Series 1.7 55th Q2 – – No
64 Refuge 1.7 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
65 Demographic Review 1.6 53rd Q2 – – Yes
66 International Journal of Population Data Science 1.6 53rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
67 Anthropology and Aging 1.6 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
68 Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 1.6 51st Q2 ESCI – Yes
69 Family Transitions 1.5 51st Q2 – – No
70 Estudios Fronterizos 1.5 50th Q2 ESCI – Yes
71 Revista Galega de Economia 1.5 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
72 Canadian Studies in Population 1.5 48th Q3 SSCI – No
73 Mir Rossii 1.5 48th Q3 ESCI – No
74 Adoption Quarterly 1.5 47th Q3 ESCI – No
75 Ager 1.4 46th Q3 ESCI – No
76 Canadian Journal of Regional Science 1.4 46th Q3 – – No
77 Migraciones Internacionales 1.3 45th Q3 – – Yes
78 Settler Colonial Studies 1.3 44th Q3 ESCI – No
79 Labour 1.3 43rd Q3 ESCI B No
80 Nordic Welfare Research 1.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
81 Names 1.2 42nd Q3 AHCI, SSCI – Yes
82 Demografie 1.2 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
83 Cosmopolitan Civil Societies 1 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
84 Population and Economics 1 40th Q3 – – Yes
85 Diaspora Studies 1 39th Q3 ESCI – No
86 Caucasus Survey 1 38th Q3 ESCI – No
87 Population Review 1 38th Q3 ESCI – No
88 International Journal of Population Studies 1 37th Q3 – – No
89 International Journal of Microsimulation 1 36th Q3 – – No
90 Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies 1 36th Q3 – – No
91 Geoadria 1 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
92 Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 0.9 34th Q3 – – No
93 Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 0.8 33rd Q3 – – No
94 Estudios Demograficos y Urbanos 0.8 33rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
95 Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 0.8 32nd Q3 – – Yes
96 Lengua y Migracion 0.8 31st Q3 ESCI – No
97 Migracijske i Etnicke Teme 0.7 31st Q3 – – Yes
98 Current Chinese Economic Report Series 0.7 30th Q3 – – No
99 Statisztikai Szemle 0.7 29th Q3 – – No
100 Dve Domovini 0.7 28th Q3 – – Yes
101 Poblacion y Sociedad 0.7 28th Q3 – – Yes
102 Poblacion y Salud en Mesoamerica 0.7 27th Q3 ESCI – Yes
103 Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales 0.7 26th Q3 – – Yes
104 International Real Estate Review 0.7 25th Q3 ESCI C No
105 Annales de Demographie Historique 0.7 25th Q3 – – No
106 Crossings 0.7 24th Q4 – – No
107 Asia in Transition 0.6 23rd Q4 – – No
108 Economia, Sociedad y Territorio 0.6 23rd Q4 ESCI – Yes
109 Espace-Populations-Societes 0.6 22nd Q4 ESCI – Yes
110 J-Reading 0.6 21st Q4 – – No
111 Quality of Life in Asia 0.6 21st Q4 – – No
112 Norteamerica 0.6 20th Q4 – – Yes
113 Jurnal Biometrika dan Kependudukan 0.5 19th Q4 – – Yes
114 Ethiopian Renaissance Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 0.5 18th Q4 – – No
115 Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 0.5 18th Q4 – – No
116 Environment, Space, Place 0.5 17th Q4 – – No
117 Historical Records of Australian Science 0.5 16th Q4 AHCI, SCIE – No
118 Papeles de Poblacion 0.4 16th Q4 SSCI – Yes
119 Espaces et Societes 0.4 15th Q4 – – No
120 Historicka Demografie 0.4 14th Q4 – – No
121 Journal of Migration History 0.4 13th Q4 ESCI – No
122 Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economia Social 0.4 13th Q4 – – No
123 Journal of African Population Studies (JAPS) 0.4 12th Q4 – – No
124 Popolazione e Storia 0.3 11th Q4 – – No
125 Sociologia Urbana e Rurale 0.3 11th Q4 – – No
126 Studies in Global Social History 0.3 10th Q4 – – No
127 Studies of Jews in Society 0.3 9th Q4 – – No
128 Journal of Statistical Research 0.3 8th Q4 – C No
129 Revista de Demografia Historica 0.3 8th Q4 – – No
130 Diasporas 0.2 7th Q4 AHCI – Yes
131 Historijski Pogledi 0.2 6th Q4 – – Yes
132 Societes 0.2 6th Q4 AHCI – No
133 Cahiers des Ameriques Latines 0.2 5th Q4 ESCI – Yes
134 Cahiers du Genre 0.2 4th Q4 – – No
135 PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 0.1 3rd Q4 – – No
136 Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies 0.1 3rd Q4 – – Yes
137 Studi Emigrazione 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
138 Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being 0.1 1st Q4 – – No
139 Local Population Studies 0.1 1st Q4 – – No
140 Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Demography Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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